| Geba | |
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| Native to | Burma |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2010)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kvq |
| Glottolog | geba1237 |
Geba, also known asEastern Bwe, is aKaren language ofBurma.
The consonant inventory of Geba is presented below. The consonants in parentheses occur rarely and confirming whether they are phonemes would require further research.[2]
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Post-alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | Voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | |||
| Voiceless unaspirated | p | t | (tʃ) | k | ʔ | |||
| Voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||||
| Implosives | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless aspirated | sʰ | ||||||
| Voiceless unaspirated | θ | s | ʃ | (x) | h | |||
| Voiced | (ɣ) | (ɦ) | ||||||
| Nasals | Voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | |||||
| Voiced | m | n | (ŋ) | |||||
| Approximants | Voiceless | w̥ | l̥ | |||||
| Voiced | w | l | j | |||||
| Trills | r | |||||||
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||